A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . R0U15N CATHEDRA!. the unavoidable expense frequently renders it impossible to give suchmaps, even when necessary, in books published at a low price. Under ee2 612 THE PEACTICE OF WOOD ENGRAVING. such circumstances, where little more than outlines, with the courseof rivers, and comparatively few names, are required, wood engravingpossesses an advantage over copper, as such maps can be executed ata very moderate expense, and printed with the letter-press of the workfor which they are intended. As the names in maps engraved on woodare the
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . R0U15N CATHEDRA!. the unavoidable expense frequently renders it impossible to give suchmaps, even when necessary, in books published at a low price. Under ee2 612 THE PEACTICE OF WOOD ENGRAVING. such circumstances, where little more than outlines, with the courseof rivers, and comparatively few names, are required, wood engravingpossesses an advantage over copper, as such maps can be executed ata very moderate expense, and printed with the letter-press of the workfor which they are intended. As the names in maps engraved on woodare the most difficult parts of the subject, the method of drilling holesin the block and inserting the names in type—as was adopted in the. maps to Sebastian Munsters Cosmography, Basle, 1550,*—lias recentlybeen revived. The names in the outline maps contained in the PennyGvclopffidia are inserted in this manner. Had those maps not beenengraved on wood, it would have been impossible that any could havebeen given in the work, as the low price at which it is published would * Some account of the maps in Sebastian Munsters Cosmography is previously given atpage 204, and page 417. THE PRACTICE OF WOOD ENGEAVING. 613 not have allowed of their being engraved on copper, and, consequently,printed by means of a rolling-press at an additional expense. When, however, a map is of small dimensions, and several namesin letters of comparatively large size are required to be given, thismethod of piercing the block can scarcely be applied without greatrisk of its breaking to pieces under the press, in consequence of itsbeing weakened in parts by the holes drilled through it being so neartogether.* This inconvenience, however, may be rem
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